Senate Democrats won't likely step on the gas to ensure the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as President Barack Obama's attorney general pick, according to No. 3 Democrat Charles E. Schumer.

"I think the likelihood is that [the Lynch nomination] will not be in the lame duck," the New York Democrat told reporters Wednesday morning. "I think our Republican colleagues don't want it during the lame duck and I think we are going to accede to that request."

"Because I think she's going to get support," he said when asked about the delay. "[If] we know she is going to get support, why poison the well? I have such confidence in her I think when they get to know her and see her they will support her."